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...academics from the school of Art & Design at the U.K.'s University of Wolverhampton went to China to forge links with educational institutions. While they were there, they fell into a discussion with Shanghai University Professor Wang Dawei about glass art - one of the key subjects offered at Wolverhampton. It quickly emerged that the subject was not taught at all in China's fine-art institutions, even though the country produced a staggering 80% of the world's processed glass. Wang resolved to do something about it, and in 2000 Shanghai University's glass studio was launched. It was headed...
...when Eric was two, his father died when coming home from the Army for Christmas; the car he'd hitched a ride in was hit by a truck. The family had few resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...
...performer has plumbed the sensual side of soul with more skill than newcomer Ephraim Lewis. When he was a child in the factory town of Wolverhampton, Lewis' parents forbade him to listen to any secular music. His father tried to steer him into the ministry, but Lewis had other plans; he left home as soon as he turned 17. Settling in Sheffield, he bunked with friends and worked through the night in recording studios, listening to records and composing songs. Says Lewis, 24: "I discovered Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell and Curtis Mayfield. I just swallowed...
Most Britons were aghast. Winston Churchill, the late Prime Minister's grandson and M.P. for the Stretford district where Powell spoke, called such sentiments "insane, venomous outpourings." Wolverhampton Laborite Renee Short was more explicit. She accused Powell of purveying twaddle and advised: "Belt up, you big bore...
Died. Prince William of Gloucester, 30, bachelor first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, former Foreign Office commercial attache and ninth in line of succession to the British throne; of injuries suffered when the light plane he was piloting crashed during an air race; in Wolverhampton, England...